diff --git a/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/lib/libzfs/common/libzfs_pool.c b/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/lib/libzfs/common/libzfs_pool.c
index 658059cec2e5..8295bb1cf90c 100644
--- a/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/lib/libzfs/common/libzfs_pool.c
+++ b/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/lib/libzfs/common/libzfs_pool.c
@@ -1786,7 +1786,12 @@ zpool_import_props(libzfs_handle_t *hdl, nvlist_t *config, const char *newname,
 		case EEXIST:
 			(void) zpool_standard_error(hdl, error, desc);
 			break;
-
+		case ENAMETOOLONG:
+			zfs_error_aux(hdl, dgettext(TEXT_DOMAIN,
+			    "new name of at least one dataset is longer than "
+			    "the maximum allowable length"));
+			(void) zfs_error(hdl, EZFS_NAMETOOLONG, desc);
+			break;
 		default:
 			(void) zpool_standard_error(hdl, error, desc);
 			zpool_explain_recover(hdl,